One of the most enchanting books published for some time-
is Mr. H. Avray. Tipping's, English Gardens (Country Life). There are fifty-two gardens illustrated and described, some of them modern, some of them perpetuating the styles and methods of Tudor, Stuart and. Hanoverian gardening. The photographs are neat and clear ; sometimes we have a moment's doubt, on seeing photographs so well composed and so excellently lighted, whether Mr. Tipping has not chosen a moment of beauty not to be repeated—whether the gardens themselves would come up to the loveliness expressed in these illustrations ; but we can hardly wish a photographer to choose a middling day and an uncongenial view for mere information's sake. Probably, too, there will be readers who count some of the more formalized and artificial gardens extremely hideous ; in which case Mr. Tipping may well congratulate himself for having given us the materials for the formation of taste.
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